1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him 400 men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants. 2 And he set the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing near to his brother, 4 and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, “What are these to you?” And he said, “The children with whom God has favored your servant.” 6 And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also drew near, and her children, and they bowed themselves. And afterward Joseph had drawn near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, “What to you is all this camp which I have met?” And he said, “To find grace in the eyes of my lord.” 9 And Esau said, “I have abundance, my brother, that which you have, let it be for yourself.” 10 And Jacob said, “No, please, now if I have found grace in your eyes, then you have received my present from my hand, because that I have seen your face, as the seeing of the face of God, and you are pleased with me. 11 Please receive my blessing which is brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all things.” And he pressed on him, and he received it, 12 and said, “Let us journey and go on, and I go on before you.” 13 And he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling flock and the herd are with me. When they have beaten them one day, then all the flock will die. 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and to the foot of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.” 15 And Esau said, “Please let me place with you some of the people who are with me.” And he said, “Why is this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.” 16 And Esau turned back on that day on his way to Seir. 17 And Jacob had journeyed to Succoth, and built a house for himself, and had made shelters for his livestock, therefore he had called the name of the place Succoth. 18 And Jacob comes safe at the city of Shechem, which was in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encamped before the city, 19 and he bought the portion of the field where he had stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for 100 kesitah. 20 And he set up there an altar, and proclaimed at it God—the God of Israel.